My YouTube Channel @skopioeye has finally hit 1 million views. – hurray! I first created this YouTube channel back in October 2010 and for the first couple of years only used the account to view YouTube videos. The first video that I published was in 2013 and it was a video I captured using a […]
If you spend a lot of time watching videos on YouTube, you may not know that several video speed hacks can save you a lot of time. By increasing the playback speed of a video, you can quickly get through the content without missing any important information. Similarly, if you want to slow down a […]
In this article, I will discuss 3 easy ways I use to blur sections of a video. I will first show you the free way of blurring a section of the website and you can even do this once you’ve uploaded the video to YouTube. YouTube Studio Editor You need to use the YouTube Studio […]
It’s been just over a year since the Skopioeye channel was approved for monetisation and thought I’d give you all a 1-year update. Every month the channel has been making US$40 except for the December period which only made $30. We’ve consistently posted at least 1 video a week and in some weeks we published […]
Here’s a fast way to check your YouTube User and Channel ID, all you need to do is go to the Advanced Settings Account page: https://youtube.com/account_advanced (make sure you are logged in) You will then see your User ID and Channel ID. There are some social media scheduling platforms that require this information for posting […]
I was a bit annoyed at YouTube for doing this but what happened was that my most popular YouTube video that was published around 5 years ago was tagged as a YouTube Shorts. YouTube shorts are short videos (less than 60 seconds) that you can record on your mobile device and upload to your YouTube […]
Happy New Year all! It’s now 2022 and time to publish my annual review and goals for this year. This is the article I published last year: ANNUAL REVIEW 2020 AND GOALS FOR 2021 Let’s recap the goals I wrote down for 2021: increase traffic to this website and other website I manage increase YouTube […]
I’ve finally managed to monetise my Skopioeye YouTube channel. I first started the channel back in 2012 and at the time there was no such thing as YouTube channel requirements – ie 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time in 12 months. There are also some new ones now such as having the account […]
I’ve been using a headset microphone to record the audio component of my YouTube videos for my Skopioeye channel and I decided to improve on the audio quality by using a cardioid microphone. I settled for the Samson Meteor USB microphone because it was on sale and had some good reviews. https://amzn.to/3y1aeGa This is how […]
If you haven’t heard, YouTube will be hiding the Dislike counter. Yay….or Nay? I’ve been a YouTube user and a recent creator (started almost 10 years but I’ve been dedicated to publishing more content in the past 2 years). My YouTube channel is called SKOPIOEYE if you’re interested. Note that the dislike counter stats will […]
Displaying website content on a YouTube or Twitch stream is vital for any streamer but what happens when it doesn’t work after you’ve installed the latest version of OBS (27.1.3). You may not know this but OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is used by thousands of streamers across the globe and one of the reasons for […]
I’ve been using a Xiaomi USB fan to help cool down my Metabox laptop and has been working well until recently. I purchased the fan several years ago and the blade spinning is starting to slow down. It sometimes comes to a complete stop and I needed to flick the blade to start it spinning […]
As an Entrepreneur, I always try to find simple hacks to increase my productivity and in this post I wanted to share with you one of my mobile phone productivity hacks. I’ve set up all my app shortcuts in groups/folders on the main mobile home screen. I use an Android mobile phone and it may […]
Another year has quickly gone by. 2020 was a year that many of us won’t forget especially due to the pandemic and the bush fires. Life simply goes on and I wanted to spend some time in reflecting on some of my achievements in 2020 and write down some goals for 2021. Out curiosity, I […]
Last week I published a video called HOW TO FIX YOUTUBE NOT LOADING VIDEO SPINNING CIRCLE [SOLVED] on YouTube and it was related to an issue my dad experienced on his computer. He has an old HP desktop with the Windows Vista operating system. He didn’t want to upgrade the computer or the operating system […]
It took about the whole day to upload the 2GB video to YouTube and at the end of the upload this is the error message I received, “This video has been removed because it is too long”. Sorry about that. Say what? Sorry? I just spent 2GB of my quota to upload this video and […]
I created and added a logo to one of my YouTube accounts – this included the profile picture and the channel art image. I quickly created one by using an image from UnlimitedStock.com I also then went through my Google Photos and picked a background for the channel art image. There is a function on […]